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Can any of you US Constitution buffs help me understand something? When a pol refers to "Second Amendment rememdies" what does he/she mean precisely?

I know what the second amendment is. We have a right to bear arms. A few years ago Nevada Republican Tea Party pol Sharron Angle was running for the Senate and alluded to "second amendment remedies". Donald Trump brought it up in his speech on Tuesday and used the word "tragedy" at the end of it. I do not see the point. It seems like a threat but of what? That citizens use their right to bear arms to USE them? How? Against whom? Why?

Posted - August 10, 2016

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  • 35912
    Trump while he worded his speech awfully did not use the phrase "2nd amendment remedy"...
      August 10, 2016 6:37 AM MDT
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  • 113301

    I know. I have heard it played and replayed and replayed. I did not miss a word. It was Sharron Angle, the Nevada  Tea Party gal who ran for Senate who said that. But Trump  DID SAY that maybe second amendment folks could do something  and THAT WOULD BE HORRIBLE. Trump specifically said that would be horrible m2c. Why did he use that word unless he was referring to the "second amendment remedy" to which Sharon Angle referred? Why say horrible at all if what he said was innocent?  He said "there is nothing you can do folks.  Although for the second amendment folks maybe there is and that would be horrible". I think what he said is horrible. I think he is horrible. But you  know that. Thank you for your reply.

      August 10, 2016 7:04 AM MDT
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  • 3907

    Hello Rosie:

    It's pretty simple...  Right wingers BELIEVE the 2nd Amendment is there to PREVENT tyranny..  Now, in the real world, just HAVING a gun in your closet doesn't PREVENT anything...  The ONLY way guns PREVENT tyranny is if they're USED..  That's the REMEDY - USING your guns..

    Now, I don't believe Trump MEANT that..  I DO believe that he has NO CLUE what the impact of his words mean..  That's where the danger lies.  He is CLUELESS..

    excon

      August 10, 2016 7:13 AM MDT
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  • 113301

    I disagree and here is why. After he said Hillary would select judges and "there is nothing you can do folks" he followed it up by saying "although the second amendment people maybe there..I dunno...but it would be HORRIBLE". Now why would he use the word HORRIBLE if he didn't mean what we think he means? Thank you for your reply and Happy Wednesday!  :)

      August 10, 2016 7:34 AM MDT
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  • 3907

    Hello again, Rosie:

    I think he meant that her election would be horrible..

    But, that's just the POINT..  I really don't KNOW what he meant.  He's NOT articulate..  He's a WORD SALAD.  He's incomprehensible...  We WANT our president to be UNDERSTOOD in the world.  If he's MISUNDERSTOOD, the world could END!!!

    excon

      August 10, 2016 7:39 AM MDT
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      August 10, 2016 7:52 AM MDT
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  • 113301

    I know that Step. Sharron Angle did say that a few years ago in her attempt to become  Senator in Nevada. She was the one who kept showing her back to journalists because she kept  running away from interviews.  She only would talk to those whom she knew would treat her with  kid gloves. But Trump did say that second amendment  folks might have an  option ..and then he said it would be a TERRIBLE thing. Why would he say "TERRIBLE" if he did NOT  mean  murder?  Did you hear every word he said or  are yoyu just going by  what you read about what others said?Thank you for your reply Step and Happy Wednesday.

      August 10, 2016 12:21 PM MDT
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  • 35912

    I don't know what Angle said if she said that then she is an idiot. 


    But Trump did not say it and did not mean it.  

    He meant if Hillary is elected she gets to appoint judges and there is nothing we can do about that.  

    Then if she does he meant the 2nd amendment people are very organized and fight against control laws etc. The NRA and others will organize to defeat the apointments and the laws. But it still may not be enough.  And if so that would be horrible. (Her election and getting to make SCOTUS appointments would be horrible)

      August 10, 2016 3:33 PM MDT
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  • 113301

     Well my friend there is no way anyone can really KNOW what he meant. He probably didn't know. He just had more words to divest himself of so he regurgitated and we got what we got. What we do with it is up to us. Thank you for your reply excon! :)

      August 11, 2016 6:14 AM MDT
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  • 113301

    Of course no one can know what he meant m2c except him and it makes sense that you got something different from his words than I did. It would be odd  if we though he meant the same thing. Thank you for your reply.

      August 11, 2016 6:17 AM MDT
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